air strike

noun

: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs

The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.

Examples of air strike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At one point, Goodman appears to be leading an air strike on an iceberg before suddenly falling asleep. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 July 2026

Five years later, under President Obama, another air strike hit another wedding party, this time in Yemen, killing 12 more people. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

An American air strike on a PMF command headquarters in al-Anbar province killed 15 fighters; and another strike on an adjacent military base in al-Habbaniyah, which also houses a paramilitary camp, killed seven soldiers and wounded 13. — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

Stories harmful to Israel—false claims that Israel caused a famine as a weapon of war, or that an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gazan hospital—are reported credulously and corrected slowly, if at all. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

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